著者:Ron Fawcett
出版社: Vertebrate Digital
発売日: 2011年10月01日
Ron Fawcett is a natural-born climber. In 1969, while still at school in his native Yorkshire, he tied into a climbing rope for the first time and was instantly hooked. From that moment on, it seeme……続きを見る
著者:Gerry Galligan
出版社: Vertebrate Digital
発売日: 2013年07月17日
Gerry Galligan's first book is a bold and expansive travel diary recounting his assembling of a small team of Irish mountaineers and their attempts on unclimbed mountains and unexplored valleys in t……続きを見る
著者:Tony Smythe
出版社: Vertebrate Digital
発売日: 2013年10月28日
Frank Smythe's mountaineering achievements in the decade before the Second World War became a part of climbing history. His intensive Alpine climbing, followed by two Himalayan expeditions ー to Kan……続きを見る
著者:Peter Foster
出版社: Vertebrate Digital
発売日: 2019年07月11日
The Uncrowned King ofMont Blanc by Peter Foster is the story of Thomas Graham Brown: scientist, mountaineer and psychological paradox, most famous for his groundbreaking routes on the Brenva Face of……続きを見る
著者:Philip Temple
出版社: Vertebrate Digital
発売日: 2014年03月03日
It is not the courage to go back up that we need. It's the courage to go down. Just to go on … ' In 1977 a British expedition led by Himalayan veteran Geoff Strickland, summiteer of K2 and Everest a……続きを見る
Elusive Summits is the award winning first book by British mountaineer Victor Saunders, winner of the 1990 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. Documenting climbs in the 1980s, at a time w……続きを見る
In 1909, while dreaming of the Himalaya, Norwegian mountaineer Alf Bonnevie Bryn and a fellow young climber, the Australian George Ingle Finch, set their sights on Corsica to build their experience.……続きを見る
著者:Tony Howard
出版社: Vertebrate Digital
発売日: 2011年10月01日
Norway, 1965. A team of young climbers from the north of England camp at the bottom of the tallest vertical rock face in Europe - the Troll Wall. No one has dared attempt this gigantic challenge bef……続きを見る
Grand to look at, grand to look from, and grand to climb' - so Great Gable was described over a hundred years ago. Probably the Lake District's best loved hill, it receives twenty thousand ascents e……続きを見る
著者:Ed Douglas
出版社: Vertebrate Digital
発売日: 2015年03月02日
On 14 June 1990, at Raven Tor in the Derbyshire Peak District, twenty-four-year-old Ben Moon squeezed his feet into a pair of rock shoes, tied in to his rope, chalked his fingers and pulled on to th……続きを見る
著者:Steve Berry
出版社: Vertebrate Digital
発売日: 2015年02月15日
Born in the foothills close to the Himalaya Steve Berry had from an early age an urge to become a traveller, an adventurer, an explorer, and until the age of thirty-eight years he tried hard to sati……続きを見る
著者:Nick Bullock
出版社: Vertebrate Digital
発売日: 2012年08月21日
"As I sat cradling the man's head, with his blood and brains sticking to my hands, I heard a voice - my own voice. It was asking me something. Asking how I had ended up like this, desperate and lost……続きを見る
I was aware that I was cold - beyond cold. I was a lump of meat left for too long in a freezer, a body trapped beneath the ice, sinking down into the dark. 'I was freezing to death.' In this brillia……続きを見る
著者:Tony Howard
出版社: Vertebrate Digital
発売日: 2012年03月19日
Lightning hit the cliff high above us, sending a dumper-load of rocks thrumming like jagged cannonballs out of the clouds to explode around us. Bill took a direct hit on his helmet, which was smashe……続きを見る
Lure of the Mountains is the first published biography of accomplished photographer, ornithologist, teacher and 1924 Everest expedition member Bentley Beetham (1886-1963). Written by the late Michae……続きを見る
著者:Mick Fowler
出版社: Vertebrate Digital
発売日: 2013年07月17日
Vertical Pleasure is the first set of climbing memoirs from Mick Fowler - Britain's hardest-climbing tax inspector, the 'Mountaineer's Mountaineer' and recipient of the Piolet d'Or. Vertical Pleasur……続きを見る
著者:John Porter
出版社: Vertebrate Digital
発売日: 2014年09月01日
'The wall was the ambition, the style became the obsession.' In the autumn of 1982, a single stone fell from high on the south face of Annapurna and struck Alex MacIntyre on the head, killing him in……続きを見る
'Even the most casual reader among you will by now have worked out that the whole thing is little more than a delightful ruse for having a very good time.'
Experienced climber Charles Sherwood is on……続きを見る
'It was Kongur that dominated everything, and was the focus of our gaze and aspirations.'
So thought Chris Bonington upon the Chinese Mountaineering Association's decision to open many of Tibet and ……続きを見る
著者:Peter Boardman
出版社: Vertebrate Digital
発売日: 2013年10月01日
Mountaintops have long been seen as sacred places, home to gods and dreams. In one climbing year Peter Boardman visited three very different sacred mountains. He began on the South Face of the Carst……続きを見る
In 1982, following the relaxation of access restrictions to Tibet, six climbers set off for the Himalaya to explore the little-known Shishapangma massif in Tibet. Dealing with a chaotic build-up and……続きを見る
著者:Matt Dickinson
出版社: Vertebrate Digital
発売日: 2016年03月10日
The Everest Files story continues in 'North Face' ... Ryan Hart is an 18-year-old adventurer on a mission. To get himself to Mount Everest and check out the truth about the world's highest peak. Fri……続きを見る
著者:H.W. Tilman
出版社: Vertebrate Digital
発売日: 2015年09月01日
'To those who went to the War straight from school and survived it, the problem of what to do afterwards was peculiarly difficult.'
For H.W. 'Bill' Tilman, the solution lay in Africa: in gold prospe……続きを見る
著者:H.W. Tilman
出版社: Vertebrate Digital
発売日: 2016年03月28日
'We had climbed a mountain and crossed a pass; been wet, cold, hungry, frightened, and withal happy. One more Himalayan season was over. It was time to begin thinking of the next. "Strenuousness is ……続きを見る
著者:Paul Pritchard
出版社: Vertebrate Digital
発売日: 2012年11月01日
Winner of the 1997 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, Paul Pritchard's Deep Play is a unique, stylish and timeless commentary reflecting the pressures and rewards of climbing some of the……続きを見る
In the Fifth Edition of Reflections on Mountaineering, A Journey Through Life as Experienced in the Mountains, Alan V. Goldman presents a collection of 148 narrative-style poems. These poems, writte……続きを見る
著者:Hugh Norton
出版社: Vertebrate Digital
発売日: 2017年05月11日
Major Norton gave the order to fire two or three times. Their advanced machine gunners could be seen rushing forward and establishing themselves in commanding posts. Almost at once the ridge we were……続きを見る
For Chris Bonington and Charles Clarke, long-time friends and expedition partners, few mountains were more alluring than Sepu Kangri. Known locally as 'the Great White Snow God', Tibet's nearly 7,00……続きを見る
The Next Horizon, the second volume in Chris Bonington's autobiography after I Chose to Climb, picks up his story from 1962 and relates his subsequent adventures as a mountaineer, photographer, jour……続きを見る
著者:Edwin Drummond
出版社: Vertebrate Digital
発売日: 2014年12月12日
'The best climbing book I've ever read.' Lito Tejada Flores High Ed Drummond is one of the great characters of the British climbing scene. An inspired climber and writer, he made first ascents acros……続きを見る